Red Sox keep top ticket price intact

Add $5 berm seats at new JetBlue Park

Aug. 31, 2011

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Prices range from $5 for a spot on an outfield berm behind the right-field bullpen to $46 for front-row seats behind home plate at JetBlue Park, the Boston Red Sox new spring training home off Daniels Parkway in south Fort Myers.

The Red Sox announced the prices Wednesday. The top-tier price of $46 remains the same as that of 2011 at City of Palms Park.

“I like the idea they have $5 tickets,” said Glenn Allen, a season-ticket holder and North Fort Myers resident. “Anybody can go to the games.”

“That’s terrific,” Kushner said. “How many things in this world aren’t going up except for real estate prices?”

Red Sox fans have many questions about at JetBlue Park, which is under construction: Where will season-ticket holders from City of Palms Park find themselves assigned? Will the team have an open house so fans can pick out seats?

“I’m really not sure what they’re going to be able to give us that’s comparable,” said Fort Myers resident Randy Whitted, a longtime season-ticket holder whose family has had four front-row seats behind the first-base dugout at City of Palms Park since the 1990s.

Jonathan Gilula, the Red Sox executive vice president for business affairs, said questionnaires were mailed Wednesday to season-ticket holders asking for seat preferences.

“Our goal is to have seat assignments for all existing season-ticket holders prior to the end of the calendar year,” Gilula said.

The team is considering some sort of open house after construction concludes.

“So the citizens of Lee County have an opportunity to see it firsthand,” Gilula said.

Gilula said no details have been firmed up about either an open house or possible celebration to mark completion of construction.

The stadium will include a replica of Fenway Park’s famous Green Monster, the towering left-field fence that is symbolic of the Red Sox home in Boston. The Green Monster in JetBlue will have an opening so fans can sit within the wall. Seating atop the wall also will be available, just as in Fenway Park.

The Red Sox played their home spring games at City of Palms Park in downtown Fort Myers from 1993 through 2011. Their new complex will also include six practice fields, weight rooms, batting cages and soccer fields.